Investment in Trucks to Improve Crop Transportation and Market Access

TLDR

• KAHAMA: Two agricultural cooperative unions yesterday received 15 trucks financed through a low-interest loan facility from the National Bank of Commerce (NBC), a move expected to improve crop collection, reduce.
• The fleet includes 10 trucks for Kahama Cooperative Union (KACU) and five for Tandahimba and Newala Cooperative Union (TANECU).
• KACU Vice Chairman Simon Ntemi Nzengo said the union received 10 HOWO trucks valued at more than 2.1 billion shillings.
• The vehicles will support crop transportation, agricultural input distribution and other logistics operations, addressing a key challenge facing cooperatives in moving produce from farms to markets.
• These trucks will improve the movement of produce from farms to markets, reduce transportation costs and strengthen the agricultural value chain.” Urassa said the bank would continue working with cooperative unions and.